If a person consumes 700 calories or maintains a deficit of 200 calories per day, how much fat are they likely to gain in a month?

To determine the amount of fat likely to be gained in a month due to a calorie consumption of 700 calories per day with a deficit of 200 calories, it’s important to understand the relationship between calories, weight, and fat gain.

A pound of body fat is estimated to be equivalent to approximately 3,500 calories. If a person is in a caloric deficit of 200 calories daily, this would result in a total deficit of 6,000 calories over the course of a month (200 calories x 30 days). This deficit would facilitate fat loss rather than gain.

On the other hand, if that person is consuming only 700 calories per day, and if we assume their maintenance level (the number of calories needed to maintain current body weight) is higher than their daily intake, they would actually be accelerating the caloric deficit. If this intake leads to a significant caloric deficit beyond their maintenance requirements, they could be losing weight rather than gaining.

However, if the question presumes an oversimplification where they are somehow gaining calories overall due to other factors not specified here (which generally wouldn’t align with the given scenario), choosing 4 lbs as the answer is more plausible than the other options. This is because